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Michael Vorburger commented on LOG4J2-1813:
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LOG4J2-3340 has something that's a bit related to this.
> Provide shorter and more intuitive way to switch on Log4j internal debug
> logging
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> Key: LOG4J2-1813
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-1813
> Project: Log4j 2
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Configurators
> Affects Versions: 2.8
> Reporter: Remko Popma
> Assignee: Remko Popma
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 2.9.0
>
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> People find it difficult to troubleshoot Log4j 2 configuration issues. Many
> people don't know what the "status" attribute is for at the beginning of the
> configuration:
> {code}
> <Configuration status="warn"> ...
> {code}
> In addition, the above setting does not take effect until the configuration
> file is found. If users have trouble making Log4j 2 find their configuration
> file, the above does not help.
> In such cases, users can enable internal status logging by setting system
> property {{org.apache.logging.log4j.simplelog.StatusLogger.level}} to
> {{TRACE}}.
> This is problematic because:
> * It is not well-known (documented in the FAQ and on the configuration page
> but many people don't know about this feature)
> * The name is a bit... lengthy :-)
> * Apparently people don't intuitively grasp that "status logging" means the
> internal log4j 2 debug logging facility.
> * It is confusing that there are two phases (before config file found and
> after), and the status logger level can be different and needs to be
> specified separately
> I propose we add a short, intuitive system property that results in _all_
> internal Log4j 2 status logging to be printed to the console. When set, this
> property should even override the configuration status attribute in my
> opinion.
> Something like {{-Dlog4j2.debug}} (without even requiring a value) would be
> good, but I'm open to any suggestions.
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